they are over, the tall, rank foliage and enormous fruit of the
Jucunda strawberry (a variety that can scarcely grow at all in sand)
will show the capabilities of clay.

Heavy land is the favorite home of the grasses, and is usually covered
with a thick, tenacious sod. This, of course, must be thoroughly
subdued before strawberries are planted, or else you will have a hay-
field in spite of all you can do. The decay of this mass of roots,
however, furnishes just the food required, and a crop of buckwheat
greatly hastens decomposition, and adds its own bulk and fertility
when plowed under. I think it will scarcely ever pay to plant
strawberries directly on the sod of heavy land.

While buckwheat is a good green crop to plow under, if the cultivator
can wait for the more slowly maturing red-top clover, he will find it
_far better_, both to enrich and to lighten up his heavy soil; for it
is justly regarded as the best means of imparting the mellowness and
friability in which the roots of strawberries as well as all other
plants luxuriate.

There are, no doubt, soils fit for bricks and piping only, but in most
instances, by a judicious use of the means suggested, they can be made
to produce heavy and long-continued crops of the largest fruit.

These same principles apply to the small garden-plot as well as to the
acre. Instead of carting off weeds, old pea vines, etc., dig them
under evenly over the entire space, when possible. Enrich with warm,
light fertilizers, and if a good heavy coat of hot strawy manure is
trenched in the heaviest, stickiest clay, in October or November,
strawberries or anything else can be planted the following spring. The